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From: Jason Tackaberry <tack@auc.ca>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File size limit exceeded with mkfs
Date: 20 Nov 2001 15:29:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1006288154.1863.0.camel@somewhere.auc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011120113316.R1308@lynx.no>
In-Reply-To: <1006272138.1263.3.camel@somewhere.auc.ca>  <20011120113316.R1308@lynx.no>

Hi Andreas,

On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 13:33, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Several people have reported problems like this also.  What happens is
> that if you are logged on as a user, then su to root, it will fail.  If
> you log in directly as root, it will work.

Yep, this is indeed the case.

> Can you please try some intermediate kernels (2.4.10 would be a good
> start, because it had some major changes in this area, and then go
> forward and back depending whether it works or not).

2.4.10 does NOT work.
2.4.9 DOES work.

So clearly something happened in 2.4.10 which broke this.  Please let me
know if I can be of any more help.

Regards,
Jason.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-20 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-20 16:02 File size limit exceeded with mkfs Jason Tackaberry
2001-11-20 18:33 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-20 20:29   ` Jason Tackaberry [this message]
2001-11-20 20:43     ` Matti Aarnio
2001-11-20 23:56       ` Neil Brown
2001-11-20 23:35     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-21  0:24       ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-11-20 23:21   ` Horst von Brand
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-22 10:21 Peter Seiderer

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